Campaigns need a drastic change, like now

æxæ · August 2014

I know everybody is ranting that we have unbalanced campaigns, long queues etc etc. My suggestion to solve several problems we are facing with the current campaign structure:

1. Cut the "Special campaigns" for good. No one is attending these, period. People were crying they need a non-veteran campaign and look at the population, it is low 24 hrs a day. Same for veteran only campaign.

2. Get rid off "guesting". Solves several problems, such as switching campaigns because your current home campaign is not to your liking regarding scoreboard and such.

3. Create 4 campaigns, not more. 2 Veteran-Only campaigns and 2 Non-Veteran-Only Campaigns, length should be 30 days and 14 days for each.
Yes, you should not create a campaign that is free for all. Why? Because by creating non-vet and vet-only you force people to decide between 2 campaigns and thus will have good pop on both campaigns for both veteran and non-veteran.
Of couse there has to be an option for non-vet if they would like to switch to vet campaign once they turn vet1 or if they would like to remain in non-vet (level cap. stored xp are a solution).

By doing so you will have people spread equally on those campaigns imo.

Let me explain my suggestion:
I was playing Auriel's Bow (EU) since day 1 and trust me it was not a pleasure defending the gate in the end, nonetheless i did not switch. We lost. We also lost the 2nd Auriel's Bow campaign although it never finished but we were behind and probably would have lost that one also. I did not switch campaign either.
To me you have to be bound to one home campaign and you should not be allowed to switch either. It's just too easy to leave the sinking boat like a rat.

Rylana · August 2014

æxæ wrote: »

I know everybody is ranting that we have unbalanced campaigns, long queues etc etc. My suggestion to solve several problems we are facing with the current campaign structure:

1. Cut the "Special campaigns" for good. No one is attending these, period. People were crying they need a non-veteran campaign and look at the population, it is low 24 hrs a day. Same for veteran only campaign.

BS, blackwater blade is an extremely active campaign, just because you see one bar pop all the time doesnt make it dead.

seriously, its one of the best campaigns we have.

Arowe_eso · August 2014

Seeing as how NA bow of shadows and haederus are just buff campaigns I definitely agree. I don't see more than 2 campaigns being necessary in most situations. Especially if they're both vet only, which IMO is a better competitive environment.

æxæ · August 2014

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BS, blackwater blade is an extremely active campaign, just because you see one bar pop all the time doesnt make it dead.

seriously, its one of the best campaigns we have.[/quote]

sorry, I did not mean to criticize quality. I just meant we should avoid almost empty campaigns. I do understand smale scale pvp has more quality than zergballing but as for me I prefer a full campaign for all factions, rather than having an almost empty campaign which will be rushed by guilds to steamroll other factions. And 1 bar campaigns will most likely be used to conquer the map within a day. Maybe if Arena comes to Cyrodiil it would cater people better who prefer small scale pvp but this is RvR and meant to be massive imo and I wouldn't like to have one faction to be vastly outnumbered 90% of the day.

Maybe we should just have a cap for population as referred to in other posts
but for me I stand by my post that we need stricter rules and more drastic changes rather than the loose concept we have right now.

driosketch · August 2014

Rylana wrote: »

æxæ wrote: »

I know everybody is ranting that we have unbalanced campaigns, long queues etc etc. My suggestion to solve several problems we are facing with the current campaign structure:

1. Cut the "Special campaigns" for good. No one is attending these, period. People were crying they need a non-veteran campaign and look at the population, it is low 24 hrs a day. Same for veteran only campaign.

BS, blackwater blade is an extremely active campaign, just because you see one bar pop all the time doesnt make it dead.

seriously, its one of the best campaigns we have.

Agreed. People need to stop lumping Blackwater with the other short campaigns if they have not had the pleasure of actually playing it.

RedTalon · August 2014

More they need to be reduced to three campaigns at-least NA side on things, and things need to reset when a campaign ends(the maps) or going to have some of the same problems the old ones had.

SeltzerDuke · August 2014

Rylana wrote: »

BS, blackwater blade is an extremely active campaign, just because you see one bar pop all the time doesnt make it dead.

seriously, its one of the best campaigns we have.

OP's sig suggests he plays the EU server (and yours suggests NA), so possibly Blackwater is in fact dead on their version. Just pointing that out.

booksmcread · August 2014

Let me get this straight, you say, "Cut the "Special campaigns" for good. No one is attending these, period. People were crying they need a non-veteran campaign and look at the population, it is low 24 hrs a day. Same for veteran only campaign." and then ask for, "2 Non-Veteran-Only Campaigns"?

And, @Rylana is right, the action on Blackwater Blade (NA, at least) is very good. It may not pop lock, but there are plenty of high quality battles going on there every night.

TheBull · August 2014

Cut the specials, I agree. There has to be some sort of reduced point gain during off hours aswell. Like from 3am east to 8am est 1/4 point gain. Something MUST be done about the oceanic folks.

æxæ · August 2014

Yea im saying cut the specials and give them valid campaigns cuz as of right now we have "free for all" and three of those. Not good. If it's only non-vet and vet-only and 2 of each we will have 4 valid campaigns, who needs specials? Blackwater Blade could still exist as it is already a non-vet campaign but first and foremost the "free for all" has to go so that all non-vet players really choose those campaigns, that is my point.